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The author George Orwell:
George Orwell was born in India in 1903 (real name Eric Blair), and was educated at Eton. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Burma in the Indian Imperial Police. For the next two years he lived in Paris, and then he came to England as a school teacher. Later he worked in a bookshop. In 1937 he went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. During the Second World War he was a member of the Home Guard ...
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The author George Orwell:
George Orwell was born in India in 1903 (real name Eric Blair), and was educated at Eton. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Burma in the Indian Imperial Police. For the next two years he lived in Paris, and then he came to England as a school teacher. Later he worked in a bookshop. In 1937 he went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. During the Second World War he was a member of the Home Guard ...
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General
Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and is situated in the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland. Northern Ireland is bounded on the north and north-east by the North Channel and on the south-east by the Irish Sea; on the south and west it has a 488 km border with the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland is also known as Ulster, because it comprises six of the nine counties that constituted the former ...
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Jenny is a young 15-year-old girl and lives a ordinary live. And like everyone at her age she's got a lot of problems with parents and friends. Jenny's story is starting here.
The new school year is beginning and on the first day Jenny notices a new boy at school. His name is David Slater and he seems to be ver ...
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Notes from Underground is one of the most influential pieces of fiction in Western European history. It has attracted attention for many reasons. 1) It contains an all-out assault on Enlightenment rationalism and the idea of progress which foreshadows many such assaults in the mid-to-late twentieth century. 2) It is an outstanding example of Dostoyevsky\'s psychological skills, depicting a character motivated by many contradictory impulses. S ...
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Cordwainer Smith: \"Alpha Ralpha Boulevard\" , Theodore Sturgeon: \"Tandy\'s Story\", David R. Bunch: \"2064, or Thereabouts\", Clifford D. Simak: \"Over the River and Through the Woods\", James Blish: \"How Beautiful with Banners\", R. A. Lafferty: \"Nine Hundred Grandmothers\", Sonya Dorman Hess: \"When I Was Miss Dow\", Frederik Pohl: \"Day Million\", Samuel R. Delany: \"High Weir\", Suzette Haden Elgin: \"For the Sake of Grace\", Zenna Hend ...
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Mrs. N.H. Kleinbaum, a graduate of the Medill School of Jounalism at the Northwestern University, is a newspaper reporter and editor. She lives in Mt. Kisco, New York with her husband and three children.
Her other novelizations include the Bantam Starfire title \"grawing pains\" and \"D.A.R.L.Y\".
THE MAIN CHARCTERS:
Tood Anderson: a very shy boy. In school lessons nobody could get a word out of him.
Neil: he is a cheerful bo ...
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I want to present you the novel" The Cardinal of the Kremlin" by Tom Clancy.
Because I told you about the author already last year, I just want to repeat the most important facts: he was born in 1947 in Baltimore and worked after college as an insurance broker in Maryland.
1984 his first novel "The Hunt for Red October" was published.
Other also well-known works followed, e.g. "Cardinal of the Kremlin" (1988), "Dept of Honour", which I pre ...
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1.The Author
On February 19, 1952, Amy Tan is born in Oakland, on the eastside of San Francisco Bay. Her parents both emigrated to the USA from Shanghai, China, in 1949. Her father became an electrical engineer and later a Baptist minister.
Being Asian-American, Tan wants to conform to American culture as much as possible during her teens: "I used to think I had come down the wrong chute, out of the wrong womb. I was supposed to have been bor ...
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1.1.Problems within the Jong family
Within family Jong, the atmosphere is not always relaxed, but there are some rather heavy conflicts between mother and daughter. These problems do not only arise from the normal generation gap that exists in most families, but they are even more intensified by the different background they grew up in and the different education they received.
Because of the two different perspectives that Amy Tan offers th ...
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1.Reasons for immigration
In many cases, the reasons for the immigration were similar, no matter where the people came from. They all wanted to start a new life in the US and had hopes that are closely linked to the theme of the 'American Dream', which could be defined by the three expressions of "equality", "liberty" and "pursuit of happiness".
As John F. Kennedy put it: "There were probably as many reasons for coming to America as there wer ...
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What is obesity? Many physicians consider a person to be obese only if he or she weighs more than 20% above expected weight for age, height and body build.
What are the causes of obesity?
1.) consumption of more calories than are burned through work, exercise and other activities
2.) Inexpensive, tasty, plentiful food and a combination of leisure time, sedentary lifestyle, TV and other activities that require no physical activity
3.) Usi ...
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The Author:
- Real name is John Ernst Steinbeck
- he was born in 1902 in Salinas - California
- Studied marine biology at Stanford University
- Held several jobs including laboratory assistant, fruit picker, construction worker at Madison Square Garden in NYC and he was a reporter for NEW YORK AMERICAN
- During this time he wrote short stories
- 1929 wrote his first novel "Cup Of Gold"
- 1930 he found a publisher
- 1935 he became a ful ...
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The story takes place in the early years of amerika and tells about the love two men can feel for another. These two men work on farms. One inarticulate, dumb, sometimes violent in his need, the other clever, hopefully and feels responsible for the other.
The name of the intelligent one is george. The other is named Lennie, he is disabled since his birth. Lennie is silly but strong, that's one reason why george takes lennie with him. The oth ...
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Author: John Steinbeck. 1902 - 1968
He is one of the most famous American authors of our century. Most of his books and plays were quite humorous and full of social criticism. His most famous books are "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Tortilla Flat". In 1962 he got the Nobel-prize for literature.
Title: Of Mice and Men
Date of publication: 1966, by William Heinemann
Plot synopsis: Lennie and George are two farmhands. They travel through the cou ...
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The German government has ruled out scrapping its eco - tax and refused demands for a direct cut in diesel excise duty. Instead the government considers helping welfare - recipients hurt by higher petrol and heating oil costs and will offer a package of social and fiscal measures.
In contrast to previous oil crises, many experts have no simple explanation for the recent price rises. The president of the OPEC (the Organization of the Petroleum Ex ...
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The first stage is characterised by an overwhelming sense of peace, calm and wellbeing, as well of freedom from bodily pain, which may have been acute.
In the second stage the experiencer feels detached from the physical body. The detachment is emotional as well as physical: the self no longer identifies with what it sees as a physical instrument to be discarded when worn out. While the patient is "unconscious" his mind floats around, observin ...
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A novel by Charles Dickens
Introduction
"Oliver Twist", Dickens' second novel, tells the story of the orphan Oliver set against the seamy underside of the London criminal world Published in monthly parts partly concurrent with Pickwick, the novel was illustrated by George Cruikshank. In this departure from the merry world of Pickwick, Dickens targets the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1934 which renewed th ...
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Author
Ken Kesey is an American author who was born in Colorado in 1935. He studied in Oregon and Stanford and after finishing his studies he passed turbulent years in California. In 1968 he settled down in Oregon. Kesey's experiences with the drug scene and the situation in hospitals were an advantage when he wrote the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1962. The book was a great success - not only students liked it.
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Ken Kesey is an American author who was born in Colorado in 1935. He studied in Oregon and Stanford and after finishing his studies he passed turbulent years in California. In 1968 he settled down in Oregon. Kesey's experiences with the drug scene and the situation in hospitals were an advantage when he wrote the novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1962. The book was a great success , it was also made into a film with Jack Nich ...
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